Post by Trade facilitator on Aug 24, 2013 8:11:53 GMT 1
Nigeria, the fourth-largest cocoa grower in the world, is counting on early-maturing, high-yielding, disease-resistant beans to help double the country’s production in two years.
“We’re distributing eight varieties of the plant that mature in about 18 months to farmers in the 14 cocoa producing states to replace the traditional crop with four to five years maturity,” Malachy Akoroda, chief executive of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, said yesterday in an interview in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun state, in the southwestern part of the country.
Africa’s second-largest economy plans to double cocoa production to 500,000 metric tons in two years, Akinwunmi Ayo Adesina, minister of agriculture and natural resources, said June 6.
Source: www.businessweek.com/news/2013-08-21/nigeria-s-cocoa-farms-turn-to-new-beans-to-help-double-output
“We’re distributing eight varieties of the plant that mature in about 18 months to farmers in the 14 cocoa producing states to replace the traditional crop with four to five years maturity,” Malachy Akoroda, chief executive of the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, said yesterday in an interview in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun state, in the southwestern part of the country.
Africa’s second-largest economy plans to double cocoa production to 500,000 metric tons in two years, Akinwunmi Ayo Adesina, minister of agriculture and natural resources, said June 6.
Source: www.businessweek.com/news/2013-08-21/nigeria-s-cocoa-farms-turn-to-new-beans-to-help-double-output
